Project Officer (Field Implementation) UNICEF Project
About this role
With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Community Governance & Committee Mobilization
- Form, revitalize, and strengthen Village WASH Committees (VWCs) and Water User Committees in target rural communities across the project townships.
- Ensure Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) principles are embedded into committee structures, prioritizing the active participation of women, female-headed households, and persons with disabilities.
- Facilitate community consensus on water tariff collection models, financial oversight mechanisms, and long-term water safety rules.
Capacity Building, Training Facilitation & Hygiene Promotion
- Organize and facilitate capacity-building workshops for VWCs on Financial Management (FM), Climate-Resilient Water Safety Planning (CR-WSP), and basic O&M.
- Conduct Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), WASH-Infection Prevention & Control (IPC), and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) trainings for community volunteers and local sanitation entrepreneurs.
- Lead hygiene promotion campaigns and school MHM interventions, overseeing the distribution of MHM kits, drinking water bottles, water filters, and hygiene supplies.
Smart Subsidy Management & Institutional Coordination
- Coordinate transparent beneficiary selection and distribution of smart subsidies to support vulnerable households in constructing climate-resilient sanitation facilities.
- Coordinate institutional WASH interventions in schools and learning centers with teachers, local education networks, and CSOs.
Digital Monitoring (mWater), Accountability & Reporting
- Conduct baseline surveys and field-level monitoring using mWater digital mapping and tracking tools.
- Sensitize target communities on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), Environmental & Social Safeguards (ESS), and Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM).
- Compile monthly narrative progress updates, activity reports, field logs, and beneficiary success stories for the Project Manager.
KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in humanitarian response or WASH-related field operations.
- Proven experience in Capacity Building, Facilitation, monitoring WASH infrastructure.
- Experience in providing technical support at field level.
- Strong understanding of emergency response contexts.
- Bachelor’s degree in social science, Development Studies, Public Health, Environmental Science, or a related field.
- Minimum 2–3 years of experience in WASH project implementation, community mobilization, training facilitation, and CLTS/hygiene promotion in NGO/INGO/humanitarian settings.
- Strong training facilitation and presentation skills, proficiency in mobile data collection tools (mWater / Kobo Collect), community engagement expertise, and a conflict-sensitive approach.
- Native fluency in Myanmar; working professional proficiency in English.
- Frequent field travel to project areas, including emergency response locations
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants OnlyCompany at a glance
World Vision is the largest child-focused private charity in the world. We are a leader in child sponsorship, community development, humanitarian response, and advocacy. Our 33,000+ staff members working in nearly 100 countries have united with our incredible supporters to impact the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty. Through World Vision, every 60 seconds … a family gets water … a hungry child is fed … a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.
Motivated by our faith and guided by our deep experience and expertise, we are a Christian child sponsorship, humanitarian, development, and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families, and their communities around the world and creating lasting impact that will live on in generations to come. We serve all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
Vision Statement
Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.
Our Mission Statement
World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.
We pursue this mission through an integrated, holistic commitment to:
- Transformational Development that is community-based and sustainable, focused especially on the needs of children.
- Emergency Relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster.
- Promotion of Justice that seeks to change unjust structures affecting the poor among whom we work.
- Partnerships with churches to contribute to spiritual and social transformation.
- Public Awareness that leads to informed understanding, giving, involvement and prayer.
- Witness to Jesus Christ by life, deed, word and sign that encourages people to respond to the Gospel.
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